Leadership

Professor of Medicine, Research Director for Division of Computational Medicine

Dr. Musen leads Stanford’s Division of Computational Medicine and conducts research related to open science, data stewardship, intelligent systems, and biomedical decision support. His group developed Protégé, the world’s most widely used technology for building and managing terminologies and ontologies. He is Principal Investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, one of the original National Centers for Biomedical Computing created by the U.S. National Institutes of Heath (NIH). He is principal investigator of the Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR).

Dr. Musen has led CEDAR which is a Center of Excellence supported by the NIH Big Data to Knowledge Initiative, with the goal of developing new technology to ease the authoring and management of biomedical experimental metadata. Dr. Musen chaired the Health Informatics and Modeling Topic Advisory Group for the World Health Organization’s revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and he currently directs the WHO Collaborating Center for Classification, Terminology, and Standards at Stanford University.

Kim and Ping Li Professor of Medicine, Computational Medicine/Biostatistics

Dr. Desai is the Section Chief of Biostatistics and the Director of the Quantitative Sciences Unit (QSU). She is an expert in the design of complex clinical trials, the handling of missing data, the translation of trial findings to real world target populations, and the optimal development of data science infrastructure for academic medical centers. As Section Chief of Biostatistics and Director of the QSU, she manages a group of faculty, and PhD- and Master’s-level staff, who collaborate with clinical and translational investigators throughout the School of Medicine to generate robust and rigorous evidence that drives patient care. Dr. Desai joined the Department of Medicine at Stanford University in 2009.

Professor of Medicine, Computational Medicine 

Dr. Shah is the Associate Director for the Division of Computational Medicine. He is a physician scientist and an expert in approaches that combine machine learning and knowledge of medical ontologies to enable use cases for the learning health system. He develops methods to analyze large unstructured data sets for use in data-driven medicine and to enable improvements is decision-making in medicine and health care. Dr. Shah joined the Computational Medicine faculty in 2011. Prior to that he served as a Research Scientist in the division and trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Mark Musen between 2005-2007.

Juliet Lee is the Administrative Division Director for the Division of Computational Medicine and the Administrative Division Director for the Division for Research and Education in Academic Medicine (DREAM). She provides strategic and operational leadership across both divisions, overseeing finance, human resources, communications, and program development. Juliet joined Stanford University in 2013 and the Department of Medicine in 2023.